Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-03-04
ROsEBURG REVIEW
FRIDAY. MARCH, 4. 1887.
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here, but their worship shall not in.
fringe upon the worship of others nor
work injury to the body polite. The
Typical American should set his face
against all seeming alliance of Church
and State. We say to the Holy. Faith
er, live in peace. Stay in Rome. Live
on the banks of the Tiber If you
come here, you must be an American
citizen, rejecting your doctrine of tenn
poral power. You may come and be
naturalized and be voter. but we can
have no temporal fopes here. Ap-
plaRse and laughter. So we say to
our eountrymen that come from dear
old ireland, the best country in the
world to emigrate from, laughter, to
the italian, to the Spaniard, to the
German, you may belong to the church
of the spiritual pontiff but you mus.
renounce all allegiance to temporal
pontiffs. 1 hold that under our laws
of. naturalization, that it is the duty of
every cardinal, every archbishop, every
bishop, and every priest, every monk,
Franciscan or Jesuit, to solemnly re-
nounce before God aad the holy an
gels, all political allegiance to the Pope
as temporal prince, to-day is seeking
to re-establish diplomatic relations
with England and other European Ia
tions in recognition of his temporal
sovereignty.
And he is true American citizen,
whether foreign.born or native born
WHO maintains as an American institu
ton, the Holy Sabbath day. He car
callIit Sunday, after the old pagan god
bHshe must rest on the seventh day
rest from toll, rest in the interest oi
the dignity of labor, rest as discount
upon capital, rest for compensation
rest for domestic happiness, rest fol
pious culture The seventh day o.
every week should be consecrated to
cessation from labor and devoted tc
physical and mental repose. 1t should
not be day of recognition to be spent
in riotous living and in brawls, but &
day peaceful, in harmony with the in
stitutions of religion and the dominan
sentiment of the country. Our fathers
consecratel the Sabbath, and had yor
the patience to hear and | the time tc
read from Franklin, from Jefferson
from Washington, touching the Sab
bath, in recognition of it as indispen
sable to the welfare of our to1y politi,
you would be confirmed in this gres
truth. The danger to-day Is that "
are becoming uE- American in cuttin,
loose from the Sabbath day as day 0
rest and of worship. l cannot invok
the civil law to say that it shall be
day Of rest. 1 cannot invoke the civi
law to say that that man shall. worshi
here or worship there, or worship a
all, but I can invoke the civil law t
say that it shall be non-secular day
not day for the transaction of bus
ness, but day on which the laborip
man shall walk out under Gods fre
skies and say: This is my day, the da,
of freeman. Applause. The ten
dency is to transplant European Sal
bath here; the German with his lager
and the Frenchman with his wine, AM
the Irishmam with his shillalah
Laughter. No, no, gentleman, sta,
on the other side of the great deer
We don't want these things, Or thi
day, on this side of the broad Atlantic
There is another attribute that bt
longs to the true American citizen
the recognition of Christianity as th
religion of our country. Webster, GU
grertest expounder of constitution.
law, did not hesitate to declare tha
Christianity Methodist Christian
ity, not Roman Catholic Christianit,
not Presbyterian Christianity,-b
Christianity as taught by the fou
Evangelists, is the recognized religio
of this land. Recognized how fan
So far that its ethics shall be embodie
in our constitutional and statutor
law; so far that it's teachings of til
brotherhood of mankind shall be al
cepted; so far that its lessons of frate
nifty, equality, justice; and mercy shal
be Incorporated in the law Of society
Those beautiful moralities that fe
from the lips of the divine Son c
God have been incorporated in tn
laws of the land, and that with fe,
exceptions Our chaplains for til
army and navy and for Congress are il
recognition of this. On that sacre,
book the oath of the Presidential re
sponsibility is taken. And thi
Thanksgiving Day, appointed by th
President, is monument of proof
These point to Christianity as th
dominant religion of the land, not
the exclusion of the Jew, not to th
Greek, not the exclusion of the Mo
hammedan, not to the exclusion Of tn
Brahmin, but permeating society wit
its principles.
Then, citizens, the danger whicI
comes from this foreign population i
to be met in this way, first, to hol,
that this country is for Americans
who are clothed with these seven attri
butes
1 do not exaggerate the danger wher
] remind you that there are grea
movements among the peoples of tn,
earth, as never before. Remembe
that the population of Europe has in
creased twenty-seyen millions from
1870 to 1880, and at this rate of in
crease Europe can send to us two mil
lions of immigrants year for the mex
hundred years. Our foreign-born pop
uiation is said to be millions, and thei
children of the first generation woulo
make fifty millions. In 1882 immigra
ton reached the enormous figure o
eight hundred thousand, and at th'
present rate of immigration it is saiC
there will be in the year 1900, fourteen
years from now, nineteen millions o
persons of foreign birth, and with thei
children of the first oanaration thpr,